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The possible scenarios for avoiding snap elections in Greece
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe threshold by trying to pick off independent and opposition MPs one by one. Instead, New Democracy
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What is in SYRIZA's 3-pillar programme to overcome the crisis?
EconomySYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras presented at the party’s congress last Saturday its updated economic platform with the key topics being: a) official request for write-off of nominal debt, b) renegotiation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) terms and c) implementation of a 3-pillar program
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Central gov't cash surplus reaches 1.42 bln in 2014 after 1.19 bln deficit in Dec
EconomyMacroeconomyin the second quarter of the year. Excluding this one-off item, the underlying BoG figure indicates a drop
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Samaras future unclear as New Democracy enters period of introspection
PoliticsGreek Politics, while shutting off the rest of the party. His cabinet only met a handful of times while he was prime
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Greece's opposition parties back in spotlight
PoliticsGreek Politicsand leadership contest. Samaras has so far fended off these calls, arguing that New Democracy should
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Piraeus Bank net losses at 332 mln in Q4 2014, NPLs drop under 39 pct
EconomyBankingexpenses is largely owed to a one-off cost of 66 million related to the implementation of a voluntary
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As reform talks continue in Brussels, Tsipras gauges reaction at home
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras is due to round off on Monday evening his attempt to engage with his own party and the domestic audience over the content of the reform package his government has sent to lenders and the course of negotiations in Brussels. As Tsipras took part in a meeting of SYRIZA’s
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PASOK elects new leader, hopes to stop slide and regroup
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEx-minister Fofi Gennimata has been elected the new leader of PASOK as the socialist party struggles to stop its slide into political oblivion. Gennimata beat off competition from former cabinet colleague Andreas Loverdos and MP Odysseas Konstantinopoulos to be elected as Evangelos Venizelos’s
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Tsipras lays down gauntlet to SYRIZA rebels, proposes September congress or members' vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras issued an open challenge to the dissenters within SYRIZA on Thursday when he proposed either an emergency congress in September or a ballot of member this Sunday to assess the party's position on the agreement for a third bailout. The proposals both seek to cut off
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Tsipras sets target of trouble-free bailout review so debt relief talks can begin
PoliticsGreek Politicswants his government to continue where it left off in its dealings with lenders in August, when
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